Quotes About Celebration

It is, after all, almost a miracle they are here. Not because they've survived the booze, the hashish, the migraines. Not that at all. It's that they've survived everything in life, humiliations and disappointments and heartaches and missed opportunities, bad dads and bad jobs and bad sex and bad drugs, all the trips and mistakes and face-plants of life, to have made it to fifty and to have made it here: to this frosted-cake landscape

The problem in the world is that we aren't kind to one another. It's kindness and human spirit that drives us. We have one another. That's all we have. We must celebrate them. Remember that. I don't care who you love, but if you love someone…if you love someone, you have to love them every day. You have to choose them every day.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

but I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

What's the occasion? she asked. He kissed her ear. I've got a gorgeous woman who's going to be my bride. She laughed. You have that every night. That's why I want to celebrate.

Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

There was something about a wedding. No matter how much you put into it, you could always put in more. There was always someone else you could call, some other question you could ask, something else you could buy. You could put every worry, every desire, every whim, every moment of your waking day into a wedding, and it was big enough to absorb them all.

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

ROLLING After the parade

And yay for the Sitter of the Month!

It was one of the best nights of my life.

But nobody cheered louder than me.

Jessi shot Mallory a sidelong glance. She remembered how Mal had celebrated Kwanzaa with the Ramseys the year before. The memory made something inside her tighten with sadness.

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Laughing, we all trooped out to celebrate Mallory's victory.

There's going to be another wedding in the family!

Emily, I decided, was the best Mother's Day present ever.

Christmas books.

This is beautiful," said Gabbie, looking at the tea party and trying to sound grown-up. "It is too, too diveen," added Myriah. Mary Anne giggled. She and the girls drank their tiny cups of punch and ate their cookies. Then they drank the bears' and the dolls' punch and ate some of their cookies, too. "Did you like the party?" Mary Anne asked Gabbie when it was over. Gabbie nodded. "I loved it. It was too, too diveen.

even wore something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

And I began to dance too.

mother is promptly congratulated by hundreds of her neighbors.